diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 45a487c..2eaea24 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ repository = "https://git.sulkta.com/Sulkta-OSS/strawcore"
 description = "Rust port of NewPipeExtractor (YT-only). Plugs into Straw via UniFFI."
 
 [lib]
-crate-type = ["rlib", "cdylib", "staticlib"]
+# rlib only — strawcore-core is consumed as a Rust library, NOT loaded
+# directly by Android. The Straw wrapper crate is the cdylib + the
+# .so Android calls System.loadLibrary("strawcore") for. Emitting a
+# cdylib here too just bloats jniLibs by ~300 KB per ABI.
+crate-type = ["rlib"]
 
 [dependencies]
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls-webpki-roots", "blocking", "gzip"] }